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Tim Phillips

Tim Phillips is president of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative issue advocacy group with 34 state chapters and 1.9 million grass-roots activists fighting for limited government, free markets and the defeat of President Obama in this year’s election. The organization raised and spent $50 million in 2011 and this year is expected to exceed that.

READING “Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963” by Taylor Branch. That book sat on my bookshelf for literally a decade plus. It’s intimidating because it’s more than 900 pages. Finally, over Martin Luther King weekend, I sat down with it, and it was crackling good reading. It just shows the courage of those involved in the civil rights movement, and it also shows the incredible things that can be accomplished with a small group of people who are committed to a cause. Now I’m getting ready to start “Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-1965,” which is volume two.

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LISTENING My sons, 18-year-old twins and a 21-year-old college kid, have me listening to all these Christian rock/rap bands, and they’re great. Groups like The Afters, Hawk Nelson, Relient K and Lecrae, for example. I have a strong faith, I’m a Christian, but I also love rock ’n’ roll. I love music with energy and passion. I wish I had music like this when I was a kid.

WATCHING On television it’s every episode of “The Office” via Web rerun. I like the utter silliness of it. And there is no alternative to watching “The Walking Dead” on Sunday night. It’s like zombie movie meets Jane Austen — beautifully drawn characters, who just happen to blast away at the undead.